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Can't wait to see the new commercial! I swear, John, your work makes it feel like the golden days of television advertisement. I even wish cigarettes were legal to advertise on TV, if we could see Cigarettes peddling them.

On Canada Day here in Sydney, one of my co-workers drove to North Sydney and asked when the fire works would be. The man replied "What fire works??" NO FIRE WORKS??!! ON CANADA DAY??!! That doesn't feel right. Apparently, our nation's birthday was pre-empted for a celebreation of Princess Diana's birthday and she's been dead for almost 10 years.

Oh well, I ate a cupcake with a Canadian flag on it and I watched a Dudley Do-Right cartoon that day. At least I did something.

The pencil art was scanned into Photoshop and registered with frames for each character in their own folder layer. Then the pencil art would be pasted into Illustrator for inking with a few simple custom brushes. From there it was pasted into Flash for coloring and animation.

Cartoon Lad,

You can check out my blog for a simple tutorial on inking with Illustrator. I'll be doing a small addition to it soon since I learned a few new techniques while working on this project.

Our fuses have been so damp lately in Dallas, after previous two years of drought, now we're drowning in too much rain, so no fireworks, not even for 4Th Of July - waaaaahhhh!(secretly plays scratchy cardboard wax recording of David Letterman soulfully intoning "Oh Canada" while Paul Schafer plays the portable aluminum harmonium, that we had cut out from old Tundra-size cereal box of Extra Flaky Deer Tick Puffs, (now fortified with real rose hips and organ grinder monkey organs!)the breakfast of super extra-ordinary good citizens everywhere, except in Lark's Vomit,Manitoba, where's there's an ongoing patent leather and trademark dispute and also not in Kennebunkport, Maine, they don't clean their fingernails or say their prayers, so we have it on good authority, honest, we swear).